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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 85:168-170 (2003)
© 2003 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Ethics in Practice

Medical Education and Corporate Sponsorship*

James D. Capozzi, MD, Rosamond Rhodes, PhD and Jeanne L. DelSignore, MD

*See accompanying Letter to the Editor on p. 164.

James D. Capozzi, MD
Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1065 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10128

Rosamond Rhodes, PhD
Department of Bioethics Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029
Jeanne L. DelSignore, MD
Chair, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Committee on Ethics, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642

The authors did not receive grants or outside funding in support of their research or preparation of this manuscript. They did not receive payments or other benefits or a commitment or agreement to provide such benefits from a commercial entity. No commercial entity paid or directed, or agreed to pay or direct, any benefits to any research fund, foundation, educational institution, or other charitable or nonprofit organization with which the authors are affiliated or associated.

Abstract

Dr. A is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement. His local detail representative tells him of a hip and knee course with an excellent faculty and a hands-on workshop. The representative offers to pay Dr. A's travel and lodging expenses as well as a $1000 stipend to compensate him for the time away from his practice.

The local detail representative offers to buy Drs. B and C lunch at a nearby restaurant in order to discuss her company's new fracture-fixation system.

Dr. D is invited by a detail representative to a dinner lecture given by a prominent physician. The representative offers to donate $100 to Dr. D's medical school if she attends the dinner.

A representative for a spinal instrumentation manufacturer offers Dr. E a trip, with all expenses paid, to attend a course on fixation techniques for the treatment of unstable spinal fractures if the physician will use the company's fixation system.


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